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Fedora 27 Impressions

Fedora 27 on the ASUS Zenbook UX305CA For people who don't know about Fedora Fedora is a independent distribution that uses its own repositories and package management and is maintained by Red Hat. It is one of the most used Linux distributions available and uses the GNOME desktop environment by default. It also is well known for having a short release cycle and for having bleeding edge software while also having QA before it is released. For people who have used Fedora and are on an older build Fedora 27 introduces GNOME 3.26 which has a redesigned settings menu, improved display switching, and many other improvements over previous iterations. Firefox has been updated to the 57 build codenamed, Quantum, and many other software package updates. I would say it is a stable release, but people on servers may want to wait out so that all bugs have been ironed out. After being on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for less than a week, I had noticed a few quirks from day-to-day usage. One o...

First blog post and Welcome!

Hi there, this is my first blog post and I would like to start with my experience with Manjaro Linux.  I've always had the thought of installing Arch on my Asus UX305CA ultrabook someday but never had the courage to dive deep into the Linux world. I've have experience with many other distros including Fedora, Ubuntu (17.10, KDE Neon), but I felt bored after using them for a while. Don't get me wrong, these are great distros, Fedora for its up-to-date software and not to mention the polish on GNOME DE, meanwhile Ubuntu for its easy to use apt commands and peace of mind.  Enough of the chit-chat, lets get right into the installation.  Before jumping ahead, I'm using the KDE variant of Manjaro and downloaded the latest version from the Manjaro website. If you do decide to follow this guide, you will lose all of your data! Also, I've install Manjaro before on my lappy but that was a while ago. Firstly, I loaded Manjaro onto a 4GB USB stick using RUFUS on ...